{"id":2423,"date":"2017-11-16T17:01:31","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/?p=2423"},"modified":"2017-11-16T17:01:31","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:01:31","slug":"coding-units-are-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/coding-units-are-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"Coding units are coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/ncnpa-computer-games-development-meeting-with-leads\/\">review of NC Computer Games Development<\/a>, we plan to create a suite of programming units. These new units &#8211; entitled <em>Computer Programming<\/em> &#8211; will be available at SCQF Levels 4, 5 and 6 (National 4, National 5 and Higher).<\/p>\n<p>The motivation for creating them is to give learners time to focus on coding. Existing qualifications tend to cover the whole software development process (design, implementation, testing), leaving little time for learners to actually code. These units will solely focus on coding. The units will be hierarchical &#8211; meaning that each level is a superset of the level(s) below. We&#8217;re using a framework to decide what-goes-where. You can see it <a href=\"https:\/\/1drv.ms\/w\/s!Av71_tveB0_uhb9CRI2DoisZn88UYQ\">here<\/a>. We&#8217;d be delighted to receive your comments.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that the units will be useful to all learners &#8211; not just Computing students. Coding is becoming a vital skill for everyone. They will be written with this in mind. Another goal is to make them women-friendly to attract more women to coding.<\/p>\n<p>Please <a href=\"mailto:emma.campos@sqa.org.uk\">contact Emma<\/a> if you want to know more about these units or the Computer Games Development awards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the review of NC Computer Games Development, we plan to create a suite of programming units. These new units &#8211; entitled Computer Programming &#8211; will be available at SCQF Levels 4, 5 and 6 (National 4, National 5 and Higher). The motivation for creating them is to give learners time to focus on coding. Existing qualifications tend to cover the whole software development process (design, implementation, testing), leaving little time for learners to actually code. These units&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2423"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3713,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2423\/revisions\/3713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}